Jaspersoft is adding integrated in-memory analysis functions and SaaS (software as a service) capabilities to Version 3.5 of its BI tool, released on Wednesday. The move opens the way for application service providers to use it to offer hosted BI services.

"In Jaspersoft, as in many BI suites, there was a difference between where you could do your dashboarding and your BI reporting, and if you wanted to do multidimensional analysis, you needed to add another module," said Nick Halsey, the company's vice president of marketing.

Now the company is putting a new toolbar on BI (business intelligence) dashboard pages allowing users to analyze data directly from whatever page they happen to be looking at.